Comments on: Where’s Mr. Inconsistency

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 20:46:33 +0000

Filetype = perfect icon in every way
WMP icon = incredibly bad, need to go back to the drawing board ASAP. Ok it’s not BAD, but it def. doesn’t fit in with the filetype icons.

By: Scott C.

Scott C. — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 16:22:04 +0000

Why is the kerning between the letters of M P E G and W M V so frickin’ huge?

In my opinion, the file format icons (ones that look like pages) look really boring and super corporate.

Plus, whenever I see hot air balloons I think of Corel Draw software or Remax Realty.

Boo!

By: kiwiblue

kiwiblue — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:49:45 +0000

Am I the only one who thinks that extension text (AVI, WAV, MP3…) in the icon picture totally sucks?

@Rowan Lewis: I believe you have the point with the color. Definitely “Algae” fits the overall Vista GUI better than “Aero”

AERO == Authentic, Energetic, Reflective and Open.
ALGAE == Awful, Lame, Grungy, Atrocious and Emotionless.

By: Alex Khristov

Alex Khristov — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 04:32:43 +0000

This doesn’t seem to be as bad as you think. All the file icons have one style, while the application icons have a different style. This makes them stand out more. As for the upside-down page, it’s used as a UI element, so it’s probably upside down for a purpose.

By: tino

tino — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 02:48:11 +0000

Unbelievable, Vista’s UI design is a complete disaster. This happens when developers are doing design stuff…

Dear Vista Design Team: please go home and let the Office, Xbox and Zune designers show you how to make a professional user interface.

By: pikablu0530

pikablu0530 — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 01:44:53 +0000

i think it’s meant to be CD cases…

Steven: what lack of reflection?

By: Jason Cox

Jason Cox — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 01:23:25 +0000

I still dont get how 3 peices of glass and an orange icon are susposed to represent WMP…

By: Rowan Lewis

Rowan Lewis — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 00:20:42 +0000

Orange? Who cares! It’d be ugly in blue!

What are those things supposed to be glass chopping boards? That shade of green reminds me too much of dirty river water with some nice blue-green algae!

By: club

club — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 00:20:19 +0000

*kills new icons in Vista*

Erm, did I do that? *sough* Anyways, the up-side-down corner thing is really – lame. Needs to be fixed, so yeah. (Probably a UBER easy fix too!)

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 00:15:11 +0000

Bit of a strange observation here!

Icons come in all shapes and colours, but at least in Vista they have slightly coordinated styles between the file type icons and the program icons – as others have already said.

I love the icons in Vista.